FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY -
PUBLIC FORUM
ON IMMIGRATION
On Friday, April 19, doors at 6:30 p.m., forum at 7 p.m., at New Freeway Hall (5018 Rainier Ave. S.), FSP hosts a public forum on immigration reform entitled 'Amnesty, Equality & Workers Rights: The real immigration reform we need!' featuring a panel of labor and community organizers who will take a critical look at the impact of new federal immigration proposals. Speakers include union organizer Pedro Olguin, Chicana feminist and Arizona native Christina Lopez, and Lois Danks, coordinator of Stop The Check-points from the Olympic Peninsula. A $3 donation is requested ($1 for students). Snack plates available for $6. For more information or to reserve childcare, please call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com. A Spanish translator will be present. Wheelchair accessible.

CAPITOL HILL TALENT SHOW
On Fridays, April 19-May 24, at 9 p.m. (May 31 Grand Finale at 8 p.m.), The Grill on Broadway (314 Broadway E.) invites aspiring musicians, drag and burlesque performers as well as a gaggle of variety performers featuring talents ranging from Sword Swallowers to stand-up comedians to compete in their Capitol Hill Talent Show. Contestants are judged by audience response. Hosted by Miss Robbie Turner. For more info and to register to compete, visit www.TheGrillonBroadway.com.

EMERALD CITY SOFTBALL
ASSOCIATION
On Saturday, April 20, games will be played from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at North SeaTac Park (13735 24th Ave. S., SeaTac).
On Sunday, April 21, games will be played from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at North SeaTac Park and Moshier Park (430 S. 156th Pl., Burien).
www.emeraldcitysoftball.org

OUT FOR SUSTAINABILITY -
EARTH GAY SEATTLE
On Saturday, April 20, from 9:30 a.m.-noon (first shift) and noon-2:30 p.m. (second shift), Out for Sustainability returns to the Cheshiahud Loop Trail (2734 Westlake Ave. N.) along Lake Union to celebrate Earth Day with habitat and trail restoration. O4S volunteers will be working toward the completion of a public water access to the northwest corner of the lake, and neighboring trail beautification and restoration including weeding, mulching, protecting tree systems from invasive species, and planting native species. O4S and partners will provide materials, direction, water, snacks, and a few inspiring speakers and musicians to spark the day. You come with suncreen, dirt-appropriate attire, re-useable water bottles, and enthusiasm. For more details and advance registration, visit www.out4s.org

MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE -
SPARKS OF GLORY CONCERT:
'ANOTHER SUNRISE'
On Saturday, April 20, at 2 p.m., at Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheef Auditorium (1st Ave. & University St.), Music of Remembrance presents Jake Heggie's Another Sunrise, a musical drama that tells the extraordinary story of Krystyna Zywulska. With her mother, Krystyna walked out of the Warsaw ghetto in broad daylight. As a member of the Polish resistance, she counterfeited identity cards and other documents. Captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, she wrote satiric poems that became camp an-thems of resistance.

This concert will also feature the stunning Duo of Erwin Schulhoff, an iconoclastic innovator whose politics and avant-garde musical ideas were shaped by his disillusionment after World War I. Shulhoff died in a concentration camp.

FREE admission. www.musicofremembrance.org

SISTAH SINEMA -
'BUMMING CIGARETTES'
On Saturday, April 20, at 2 p.m., at Roy Street Coffee & Tea (Broadway E. & E. Roy St.), Sistah Sinema presents 'Bumming Cigarettes.' Tickets: $10 at the door.
Sistah Sinema is an intimate event of less than 50 womyn showcasing Queer women of color cinema. Each showing is followed by a moderated discussion where attendees will be able to connect to each other and, occasionally, the filmmaker.

Sistah Sinema was created to showcase the nuances of Queer womyn of color culture. It is hoped that the movies will serve as a vehicle to foster honest dialogue on struggles and opportunities unique to Queer womyn of color. While discussion will focus on Queer womyn of color, all members of the Queer community are invited to attend.

SOROMUNDI
LESBIAN CHORUS OF EUGENE,
SEATTLE WOMEN'S CHORUS,
& DIVERSE HARMONY -
'BE THE CHANGE' CONCERT
On Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m., at Seattle First Baptist Church (1111 Harvard Ave.), Soromundi Lesbian Chorus of Eugene brings their 'Be The Change' concert benefit-ting LGBTQ youth to Seattle. Joining them in concert will be the Seattle Women's Chorus and Diverse Harmony LGBTQ youth chorus. Soromundi is committed to the ideal that the dialogue of song between youth and the choir can create connections, increase community education, and build community support for diversity. Soromundi is dedicated to creating harmony of spirit among all people in order to bridge our differences and celebrate that which unites us, striving to 'Be The Change' that will make things better for our-selves, our children, and generations to come. This concert benefits Diverse Harmony. Tickets: $15-general admission, $10-students/seniors.

SEATTLE OUT & PROUD -
PRIDE IDOL
On Sunday, April 21, doors at 6:30 p.m. with community karaoke, contest at 8 p.m., at Neighbours (1509 Broadway), join Seattle Out & Proud and your host Mama Tits for Se-attle's Pride Idol competition. Each week talented local amateur singers will compete to become Seattle Out & Proud's 2013 Pride Idol. Registration is first come, first served - maximum 10 contestants per week. $20 registration fee; prizes to be determined. The contest will be held Sundays, April 7, 14, 21 and 28, May 5 and 12, June 2 (Wild Card) and June 9 (Final). Seattle Out & Proud organizes Seattle's annual Pride Parade in downtown Seattle. Winner will perform at the Parade Pre-Show and on the Pride Idol Float on Sun-day, June 30. Visit www.seattlepride.org for complete details and a directory of karaoke songs to choose from or bring your own music. www.seattlepride.org

SEATTLE GAY & LESBIAN
BOOK CLUB - THE GALLERY
The Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club meets every Wednesday from 6-7:15 p.m., at Seattle Area Support Groups Community Center (303 17th Ave. E. at E. Thomas St.).

In April, the club is reading The Gallery by John Horne Burns.

One of the first novels to describe the psychological reality of the Second World War and achieve fame was John Horne Burns' The Gallery, written when he was thirty and published a year after he was discharged in 1947. Burns died six years later of alcoholism. Though he left behind two other failed novels and an unfinished fourth, The Gallery, is still in print 66 year later and still highly regarded. Taking place in Naples after the war, with a cast including both Americans and Italians, both straight and Gay, it's an intercon-nected story sequence linked by the Galleria Umberto, a meeting place for Gay hustlers.

All GLBTQ folks are welcome to participate in this FREE book club. For more information visit http://faculty.washington.edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/.

LIFELONG AIDS ALLIANCE -
DINING OUT FOR LIFE
APRIL 25
www.lifelongaidsalliance.org

NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FOR TALENTED YOUTH (NFFTY)
APRIL 25-28
NFFTY is the largest youth film festival in the world. Out of nearly 700 entries worldwide, programmers selected 215 films representing 30 U.S. states and 20 countries, all from the future generation of talented directors ages 22 and under. Opening Night will be held at the Cinerama (2100 4th Ave.) and the main festival will be held at the SIFF Uptown (511 Queen Anne Ave. N.).

Now in its seventh year, NFFTY has continued to grow year-after-year. Festival audiences are continuously exposed to insights of today's youth.

'The films of NFFTY 2013 represent the voice of this generation. But they also show us how closely connected and similar the youth of the world really are. Despite cultural and geographic differences, we see similarities in the stories these young filmmakers tell,' said NFFTY artistic director Jesse Harris. www.nffty.org

A member pre-sale and party event will be held on Friday, April 26 from 5-7:30 p.m. Enjoy local wine and appetizers from the acclaimed Skillet Street Food and first pick of the plants. Tickets: $40. For tickets and membership, call 206-325-4510. www.arboretumfoundation.org

YOUTH IN FOCUS -
'DOUBLE EXPOSURE 2013'
On Saturday, April 27, at 5:30 p.m., at Seattle Design Center (5701 Sixth Ave. S.), Youth in Focus presents 'Doubleexposure 2013,' their annual fundraising dinner and auction in support of their nationally recognized youth program to empower urban youth, through photography, to experience their world in new ways and to make positive choices for their lives. Tickets: $100. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/306745. www.youthinfocus.org.

OUT OF THE SILENCE
is a calligraphic art exhibit bringing issues of bullying and hate crimes against LGBTQ youth to light. The exhibit celebrates diversity, love and understanding. After an incredi-ble run in Olympia, the exhibit has moved to Seattle. The exhibit is currently on display at William H. Gates Hall, UW Law School, just south of the main entrance to the UW Campus (17th Ave. NE & NE 45th St.). The exhibit runs April 9-May 31, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. www.pizzaklatch.org/events/

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